Books: Strange Party

IN SUCH A NIGHT—Babette Deutsch—John Day ($2). To perceive is genius; to ignore, divine. Miss Deutsch (Mrs. Avrahm Yarmolinsky), poetic genius, sorely lacks divinity. She would wring the last drop of significance from the smallest sensuous detail—a tube of tooth paste, the feel of blankets, a gold-sheathed bodice, phonograph music. For variety of detail she has chosen a situation that might perfectly well arise but would scarcely continue. At a heterogeneous party given by affluent, slightly quarrelsome young-marrieds, a woman who came only to please her husband begins, unexpectedly, to deliver...

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